Category: CSEE
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Talk: Role of the Defense Information Systems Agency, 12p Fri 9/22
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Tech Talk with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) James Curry Lead Engineer – Cyber Security Range IDC – Cyber Workforce Development Division Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 22 September 2017, ITE 228, UMBC A broad reaching brief on some of the technical aspects of DISA’s role as a…
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Learn important cybersecurity skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge
Learn important cybersecurity skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge NSA’s fifth annual Codebreaker Challenge is a hands-on, software reverse engineering challenge in which students work to complete mission-focused objectives and push their university to the top of the competition leaderboard. The contest asks undergraduate and graduate students to do hands-on exercises that will help them…
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CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award
CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association celebrates UMBC graduates and faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the University, their fields, and their communities. This year, CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli was chosen for the Rising Star award, which is given to an outstanding…
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talk: Results from the SFS Summer Research Study on NetAdmin, 12p Fri 9/8
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Results from the SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 8 September 2017 ITE 228 (or nearby), UMBC In summer 2017, UMBC held a cybersecurity research workshop that featured the UMBC Scholarship For Service (SFS) cohort working with the cooperation of the UMBC Department of Information Technology…
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UMBC researchers develop AI system to design clothing for your personal fashion style
AI system designs clothing for your personal fashion style Everyone knows that more and more data is being collected about our everyday activities, like where we go online and in the physical world. Much of that data is being used for personalization. Recent UMBC CSEE Masters student Prutha Date explored a novel kind of…
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek on how robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Robots can also lend a hand of sorts. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock.com How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and…
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors for life-saving organ transplants
UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors that could pause the clock for life-saving organ transplants UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter will develop a bioreactor to extend the viability of lifesaving human organs as they await transplant through a major new grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Funding for the project totals nearly…
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Data Science MD @ UMBC: Streaming with Heron on Mesos/Aurora Stack, Wed 8/30
This month’s meeting of the Data Science MD Meetup will be held at UMBC’s Technology Center at 6:30-8:45pm on Wednesday, 30 August 2017. The meeting will provide an overview of Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine developed by Twitter (and transitioning to Apache) that is fully compatible with Apache Storm. At the meeting,…
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PhD defense: Prajit Das, Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices Prajit Kumar Das 8:00-11:00am Tuesday, 22 August 2017, ITE325b, UMBC There are ongoing security and privacy concerns regarding mobile platforms which are being used by a growing number of citizens. Security and privacy models typically used by mobile platforms use one-time permission acquisition mechanisms.…
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PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…